Socktober socks: check! They are beauties – just the right combination of yarn and pattern. And I simply love the color: a happy green. Not neon, not forest, not emerald, not Christmas, a happy green!

The fit is great! After all, this pattern is nothing more than 6 X 2 ribbing, cleverly concealed with some twists and slipped stitches. Which reminds me: several remarked that you’d never expect such a good-looking sock from Hello Yarn’s pictures. I hate to disappoint you, but many sock patterns, especially ribbed ones, look quite different off the foot, all scrunched up and… mysterious. This one is no exception:

See! Looks just like Adrian’s.

As for my modifications, they couldn’t be simpler: I worked the sock over 64 stitches, making each repeat 8 stitches wide: k6, p2. Otherwise, I followed Hello Yarn’s instructions, including the clever variation on the Left Twist she explains in the pattern (very pretty!).

I used an eye of partridge heel, the instructions for which I swiped from one of the sock patterns in the Fall 2006 Vogue Knitting. But this heel is very popular. Do you see how the stitches form a pretty lattice? Love it!

I’m curious to know why you didn’t reverse the cable on the other sock… or would that have looked strange? (When I saw the first sock, I somehow assumed the 2nd one would be a mirror image, don’t know why :-).)

absolutely beautiful! yours look so much better than the ones in the photo at hello yarn (i think they look better in the solid color). i never would have thought to use the pattern until i saw your version!

Wow, so pretty! I am casting on a pair for the boyfriend asap. I just finished a pair of DK Gentleman socks and was disappointed how those looked all scrunched up as well 🙁 Maybe that’s a nice pattern to try sometime? It looks great when you’re wearing them 😉

They turned out beautifully! I love that color, it is happy, you are right! The partridge heel is beautiful, very subtle, but detailed enough that you look at it and say “Hmmm, she did something differnt there, I like that…must ask what it is….”

thanks – now I’m going to have to make those…. your way of making them larger is different than what’s in the pattern – it suggests adding another 7 stitch repeat (5x2rib). Since you went to a 6×2 rib did you change the pattern stitch to: